Links to Start Your Week 6/30/13

As I mentioned earlier this week, I spent Tuesday night camped out on the sidewalk in front of the Supreme Court in order to hear the justices read the decisions on the gay marriage cases. And there is an international bent to one of the cases, DOMA, which affects federal benefits for married couples. Its overturn, announced Wednesday morning, means that same-sex couples will have the same immigration rights as heterosexual couples. So that’s pretty sweet. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charlene-obernauer/the-best-part-of-domas-re_b_3521577.html

A year after Mohamed Morsi was elected president of Egypt (in the wake of the Arab Spring protests,) a new wave of demonstrations is calling for his ouster. Protesters cite political repression, poverty, and continued high inflation rates as a source of grievances. Some have even spoken out hoping for a military coup, as they believe that is the only to remove Morsi from office other than a civil war. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/06/2013630212512626804.html